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... and three U.S. defense contractors -- all reportedly held in camps well ensconced within Colombia's dense jungles. The rebels have sought to exchange the hostages for jailed guerrillas, a demand the Catholic Church and family members of the hostages have pressed Uribe to accept. On Monday night, Uribe said ...
The hostages, including 17 Americans, are employees of Transocean, the world's largest offshore oil drilling contractor. "Everybody is expected to be moving home from this evening depending on logistics," Joseph Akinlaja, deputy president of the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC), told reporters. Some hostages may already have been released, according ...
Andrei Seltsovsky, chairman of the health committee of the city of Moscow, told a news conference that 115 hostages perished from "The effects of the gas exposure." Officials would not say what the gas was, but compared it to anaesthetic. Security analysts surmised that it was probably a fast-acting ...
... hostages or blow up the building if Russia did not agree to pull its troops out of the breakaway republic of Chechnya, press reports said. Hostage Maria Shkolnikova told Reuters via cell phone that explosives had been laid in passageways, on seats and were attached to hostages themselves. The Qatar ...
DIMITRI SIMES: Yes but the initiative is in the hands of hostage takers and my concern is that some of the hostages may try to escape. That may become a trigger for the real disaster. As you know, President Bush today became first foreign leader who called President Putin and ...
... Burnhams, missionaries from Kansas, were kidnapped last May from a resort where they were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary. The guerrillas also captured 18 other hostages, many of whom were released for ransom. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo offered sympathy to the Burnham and Yap families. "This has been a ...
... returned the remains of another 15 Palestinians to Gaza, according to hospital officials in the strip, a day after militants returned the remains of a hostage to Israel. He was identified as Lior Rudaeff, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s office. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said Rudaeff ...
... when I was at the NRCC in 2013 when Ted Cruz shut down the government over Obamacare. Obama had this thing, we will not hold hostage reopening the government. And I think Republicans now on the other side of this have held that same standard, because there will inevitably be ...
... on display at the Paris museum, including a sapphire diadem, necklace and single earring from a set linked to 19th-century Queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense. They forced their way through a window into the Apollo Gallery with the help of a freight lift, using disc cutters to cut through ...
... their latest exchange, with Israel handing over the remains of 15 Palestinians and Hamas returning what is believed to be the body of an Israeli hostage. The exchanges are part of the ongoing, yet fragile cease-fire agreement that took effect last month. Meantime, in Gaza itself, residents are bracing ...
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